Nicholas Fairbairn Quotes

All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.

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• Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Great
  • Body
  • Belief

• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Water
  • Poison
  • Absinthe

• I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • English

• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Failure
  • Poison
  • Rumor

• My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Floor

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Poison

• The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Past
  • Present

• They've raised their inflation and growth forecasts, which suggests that the ECB thinks the European economy is improving and requires more rate hikes. These comments have helped the euro.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Economy
  • Raised
  • Suggests

• Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Poison

• Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

  

  Socrates
  • Part
  • Poison
  • Malice

• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Terror
  • Poison
  • Perish

• Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Poison
  • Retaliation

• Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Education
  • Destruction
  • Poison

• Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

  

  John Milton
  • Wine
  • Poison
  • Misused

• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Apartment
  • Floor
  • Chimney

• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

  

  Moliere
  • Tongue
  • Poison
  • Proof

• I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

  

  Miranda July
  • People
  • Next
  • Sitting

• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Help

• It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • World
  • Believe
  • Nature

• So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

  

  William Barclay
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Worry

• ...women, brave as stars at dawn.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Women
  • Stars
  • Brave

• All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.

  

  Nicholas Fairbairn
  • Poison
  • Floor
  • Suggests